| Author | Message | ||
     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3243 Registered: 05-2005 |
Has anyone got it? Can you contact me if you have? How does it sound? | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1801 Registered: 10-2004 |
I'm skeptical. Didn't he learn his lesson about messing with a classic last time? | ||
| Fredrik Andersson Member Username: Fredo Post Number: 10 Registered: 08-2007 |
But I think he should do even more versions. One new each year. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3244 Registered: 05-2005 |
I still want to hear it Jeff! It's got to be better than his previous solo version. So come on, have any one of our German correspondents got it? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3249 Registered: 05-2005 |
You can hear it here http://mp3bay.org/VA/Rolling_Stone_15_Ge burtstags_Lieder_Mag/music-id102722245s9 3/ I like it. It's just Robert and his guitar. It's quite moving actually because now I'm sure the song is about Grant, whereas before the song was about himself. | ||
| Martin Schori Member Username: Martin_s Post Number: 23 Registered: 05-2006 |
I can send everybody who gives me an e-mail address a mp3 of the song via yousendit. Send your address to mschori@gmx.net until november 30, I will send the file the day after. I agree with Pádraig, the song is about Grant, whereas before I think was about Nick Cave. And it's not just Robert and his guitar, it has a second guitar and a second voice on the chorus. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3250 Registered: 05-2005 |
I have it now thanks to another kind soul hereabouts. Martin, at the last ever Go-Betweens show (The Story Of The Go-Betweens at the Sydney Festival in January 2006) Robert said Rock 'n' Roll Friend was about himself). | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 510 Registered: 04-2005 |
Someone has to defend the version on 'Warm Nights', so I'll do it ! I like that version too. Seems to be a song that Robert goes back to; he did an acoustic version on his Marc Riley BBC session (1996 ? with Clare Kenny and Dave Ruffy), which is excellent. It is a wonderful song, and one that I could never ever imagine anyone ever covering successfully; something about the lyrics and phrasing that it just so Robert. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 323 Registered: 10-2006 |
I love the Warm Nights version too! It's a great vocal, I think. But Rob would have to drastically alter the lyrics to make it about anyone other than himself. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1678 Registered: 01-2005 |
I always wondered who the song was about, and Robert gave no clue to Dierdre's querry on the Live on SNAP Bellavista bonus disc! | ||
| Martin Schori Member Username: Martin_s Post Number: 24 Registered: 05-2006 |
Pádraig - I think I know Robert good enough to know that he rarely says what he means, I think it's just something he imagined at the moment. And it's a good point. A very good one. Maybe I should think about that. I had a similar intention to say it's about Nick Cave ... maybe I was wrong and the song is about Peter Walsh (The Apartments - a great band). And maybe (perhaps) the song is about oneself (the listener)! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3252 Registered: 05-2005 |
Martin, at that show he said he wrote it about himself from the point of view of someone he was living with in Sydney. He seemed to be being genuine about it. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 324 Registered: 10-2006 |
He was fairly clear about it in London too, saying that he wrote it imagining how it was for his lover, someone outside the music world, to welcome this strange, sweaty creature home after a gig and realise that no matter how much she loved him she'd always take second place to that other alien life - which is why the song fits in so well on Warm Nights, with its thematic play of tensions between life-in-music & life-outside-music and whether its possible to reconcile and find a balance between the two. Which old Rob seems to have rather successfully done, of course. | ||
| fsh Member Username: Fsh Post Number: 199 Registered: 05-2005 |
More here: thread on list archive 2005: July - September Who is Roberts Rock n Roll Friend? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2187 Registered: 03-2005 |
Ok, I finally heard it. This is a nice stripped down presentation of the song. (Thank you Martin!) I don't really hear the Grant connection though. | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 361 Registered: 04-2005 |
Thanks Martin. Love that version. Cheers Jon | ||
| Matsrep Member Username: Matsrep Post Number: 91 Registered: 10-2005 |
Thanks Martin, I like it, but I still think that the GBs version is the best (or the acoustic version from 96 that Andrew Kerr mentioned). |